Your everlasting summerYou can see it fading fastSo you grab a piece of somethingThat you think is gonna lastYou wouldn't know a diamondIf you held it in your handThe things you think are preciousI can't understand

Chorus:Are you reelin' in the yearsStowin' away the timeAre you gatherin' up the tearsHave you had enough of mine

You been tellin' me you're a geniusSince you were seventeenIn all the time I've known youI still don't know what you meanThe weekend at the collegeDidn't turn out like you plannedThe things that pass for knowledgeI can't understand

Chorus

I spend a lot of moneyAnd I spent a lot of timeThe trip we made in hollywoodIs etched upon my mindAfter all the things we've done and seenYou find another manThe things you think are uselessI can't understand